105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Frito-Lay, Inc.

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Frito-Lay, Inc., 1629 Old Mansfield Road, WOOSTER, OHIO 44691 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was using a grinder when the material slipped and the employee's finger contacted the grinder wheel, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified

Frito Lay Inc.

An employee's right middle fingertip was caught between a chain and a sprocket in a machine. The fingertip was amputated. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Frito-Lay Inc.

An employee was working to clear a jammed box in a box drop area. The employee's left thumb was caught and amputated between a box drop tray and a support bar.

Frito-Lay, Inc.

An employee slowed his forklift in a warehouse aisle as another forklift turned from an intersecting aisle. The employee's left arm was pinned between the two forklifts. The employee developed compartment syndrome.

Frito-Lay Inc

An employee adjusted a pallet on racking and was walking back to their parked stand-up forklift when they were struck by another stand-up forklift. The employee fell into the racking system and sustained a fractured pelvis and ribs.

Frito-Lay Inc

An employee was walking while doing product inventory. The employee slipped and fell on metal decking and sustained a laceration to their left shin and calf area. The employee required hospitalization and surgery.

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Leidy's LLC

An employee was operating a band saw when his right little fingertip was amputated.

Swift Beef Company

An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.

Kitchen Tune-Up

An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.

BBCJ LUMBER LLC

An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.

Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc.

An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

Assemblers, Inc.

While attending the slab line, an employee observed that dough was accumulating on the plastic blades. He proceeded to clean the blades. His left index finger came into contact with an adjacent blade that moves laterally (left to right), resulting in a partial amputation.

Quality Snack Foods, Inc.

A sanitation employee entered the chemical room and slipped on the wet floor. When he slipped, he kicked over a bucket containing cleaning chemicals. The chemicals splashed onto the employee's clothing and burned his skin.

Frito Lay Inc.

An employee's right middle fingertip was caught between a chain and a sprocket in a machine. The fingertip was amputated. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Mckee Foods Corporation

An employee had just finished unloading material from a truck. He was descending using the truck's built-in ladder when he missed the last rung, fell to the ground, and broke his hip and left wrist.

Rolling Frito-Lay Sales, LP

An employee was using a handheld grinder to cut a bolt. The grinding wheel broke apart and a fragment struck the employee s right hand, causing a laceration to the palm near the little finger.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.